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“There is no basis for assuming that an innocent population shares the same characteristics as the criminal suspect population in the same area.” On February 4, 1999, four plainclothes New York City police officers summarily executed Amadou Diallo in a barrage of 41 bullets…

“Nobody is starving on the streets (of America). We have always taken care of them. We have churches which actually are much better mechanisms for taking care of the poor because they are right there with them. This is one of the reasons we give tax breaks to churches…” Dr. Ben Carson – CPAC Speech 2013

This is good for racially-driven politicians, but bad for South Carolinians, many I suspect, of Crawford’s own constituents. Its also bad for many not so asset-rich health care organizations throughout the state, struggling to survive to serve their communities. But of course in SC, so-called “conservative” dogma and racial politics trump good common sense and concern for ALL the state’s citizens, an approach that keeps us near the bottom in education, employment, income and a number of key economic indicators. So, representative (Dr.) Crawford should take great pride in harming SC in order to obstruct the black guy in the white house!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader’s 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro has said in a televised speech. Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced…